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rossnz / Post-ToSlack.ps1

Last active September 25, 2017 22:26

	function Post-ToSlack
	{
	Param(
	[Parameter(Mandatory = $true,Position = 0,HelpMessage = 'Chat message to send')]
	[ValidateNotNullorEmpty()]
	[String]$Message,
	[Parameter(Mandatory = $true,Position = 1,HelpMessage = 'Slack webhook URL')]
	[ValidateNotNullorEmpty()]
	[String]$uri,
	[Parameter(Mandatory = $false,Position = 2,HelpMessage = 'Slack channel')]

rossnz / Exit-TsSession.ps1

Last active June 8, 2016 09:35

Log yourself off from old TS / RDP sessions. Remote computer name can be passed as a parameter, or on the pipeline. Useful if you have to log out of a lot of machines :)

	function Exit-TsSession {
	[CmdletBinding()]
	param(
	[Parameter(Mandatory=$True,
	ValueFromPipeline=$True)]
	[string[]]$computername
	)
	begin {
	$username = $env:USERNAME
	}

rossnz / gist:be4fa82d8331c631dc8e

Last active August 29, 2015 14:01

	#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
	# Name: cookies.py
	# Purpose: Import cookies as JSON and output in WPT script format
	#
	# Author: Ross Brown
	#
	# Created: 23/05/2014
	# Copyright: (c) RBrown 2014
	# Licence: Beerware
	#-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

rossnz / gist:8519986

Last active January 3, 2025 19:27

Convert a DateTime object to Unix timestamp in PowerShell

	Function Convert-ToUnixDate ($PSdate) {
	$epoch = [timezone]::CurrentTimeZone.ToLocalTime([datetime]'1/1/1970')
	(New-TimeSpan -Start $epoch -End $PSdate).TotalSeconds
	}

rossnz / gist:8519905

Last active January 3, 2016 21:09

Convert a Unix datestamp to a .Net DateTime object in PowerShell

	Function Get-UnixDate ($UnixDate) {
	[timezone]::CurrentTimeZone.ToLocalTime(([datetime]'1/1/1970').AddSeconds($UnixDate))
	}

	# It returns a PowerShell DateTime object, which can be manipulated
	# using the standard DateTime methods, eg

	PS> $logtime = Get-UnixDate 1269313872.893866062
	PS> $logtime

rossnz / gist:8519848

Last active January 3, 2016 21:09

Masking a phone number

	PS> 'My phone number is 01-234-5678' -replace '[\d-]','#'
	My phone number is ###########

rossnz / gist:8519834

Created January 20, 2014 13:29

String replace - only keep digits

	$myString = "99 Bottles of beer on the wall!"
	$myValue = $myString -replace '[ !,.a-zA-Z]'
	Write-Host $myValue

rossnz / gist:8519825

Created January 20, 2014 13:28

String remove - only keep numbers

	PS> '1 is a number, so is 2. I quite like 3 and 4 too' -replace '[ ,.a-zA-Z]'
	1234

rossnz / gist:8519809

Created January 20, 2014 13:27

Removing unwanted characters with PowerShell

	PS> '1,2,3,4,5,6,,,' -replace ','
	123456

rossnz / nginxtopsites.sh

Created January 20, 2014 13:22

List most active Nginx sites, for when you deploy Nginx as a forward proxy

cat /var/log/nginx/access.log | awk '$9 ~ "200" {print $2}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -hr